[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#538698: Crash during install and init

[Michael Biebl]

Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> 
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2
> Severity: grave
> 
> 
> This is what happens during installation:
> 
> ---- Clip here ----
> Selecting previously deselected package hal-info.
> (Reading database ... 589821 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking hal-info (from .../hal-info_20090309-1_all.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package hal.
> Unpacking hal (from .../hal_0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2_i386.deb) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Setting up hal-info (20090309-1) ...
> Setting up hal (0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2) ...
> Reloading system message bus config...done.
> Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldinvoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action
> "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  hal
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

...

> That's it. What should I do now?

Please follow the instructions on the wiki [1] and try to get a proper backtrace.

We had crashes before due to broken fdi cache files, so you could try and
remove/var/cache/hald/fdi-cache (make a copy before you rm it).

Michael

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace

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